A Rare Case of Splenic Artery Thrombosis Provoked By Medroxyprogesterone Acetate Requiring Splenectomy

Splenic artery thrombosis is estimated to occur in only 0.016% of hospital admissions. Hormonal contraception is known to have hypercoagulable side effects, but splenic artery thrombosis (SAT) followed by functional autosplenectomy is a very rare side effect. We report a case of a 48-year-old female...

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Autores principales: Haider, Asad A, Bassi, Raghav, Prakash, Pranav, Hussein, Abdullahi, Alzghoul, Hamza, Bilal, Muhammad, Oyetoran, Anuoluwa, Iyer, Uma G
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
Materias:
Obstetrics/Gynecology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9933890/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36819368
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.33880

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9933890/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36819368
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.33880

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